Well, my brilliant strategy for Christie's ascension to presidential contender turned out to not be Christie's brilliant strategy which is disappointing for several reasons, not the the least of which is I thought my plan was indeed quite clever, but now it can't be since it isn't.
So the default candidate now becomes Romney - there's much to like there, since 2008 he's certainly matured into a much more palatable option - if one can forget he's a Mormon - and there's your problem since the values voters on the uber right are not particularily disposed to forget such things - in fact some 'preacher' spoke out yesterday about Romney not being suitable for the presidency because of his belonging to a cult - so the inglorious game is on and once again we get to witness the disheartening spectacle of democracy eating its tail.
No doubt this self immolation accounts for much of Herman Cain's rise, a protesting expression from the uber righties who choke on Romney's relative moderateness - at least I hope it's a token protest - if it morphs into something real then my doom sayer prediction viz Obama could sadly be realized, ie that Obama's leftist agenda would lead to such enraged partisanship that it'd end up empowering yet another presidential candidate entirely ill-suited to the job - Cain would certainly be that - I mean when speaking he challenges Sarah for confused gibberish - and apparently he knows absolutely nothing about foreign policy - yeah, Cain would prove an Obama coda that might just put an end to the republic - it would be hard to survive three horrible presidents in a row.
